More Intersting then Esteban OchoCinco......Child Pleeez

Speaking of the No Fun League and Chad Ocho Cinco...this guy is the best thing to happen to the NFL. Besides being a really good receiver...this guy is marketing gold. It is to bad the NFL doesn't use him more because he is what this league should be all about. Granted he had a little issue over the last year about being on the Bengals, but its only because of his desire to win. The guy produces, doesn't get in trouble for doing anything harmful, and is genuinly a good guy. He doesn't drink, smoke, and strip club it up. He has the most interesting Tweets every in my opinion and he is giving away tickets via tweets to every Bengals home game. He has also done some of the most creative touchdown celebrations to date from golfing with the pylon, an irish jig, the lambeau leap, the Hall of fame Jacket, notes to the commish etc.

There is another thing that is great about Chad and I think you should all visit. Ochocinco.com. I already have 100 dollars worth of products in my shopping cart. These shirts are great.

Millman's Monday Madness

Strasburg Signs:

77 Seconds was all that stood in between the Washington Nationals and Strasburg failing to sign an agreement before the midnight deadline. We have talked about the Nationals strategy and it was good to see a franchise step up and play some hardball even though losing a player of this potential caliber and hype would have been devastating. Strasburg signed the largest ever deal for a rookie by netting $15.1M over the course of a 4 year deal. A quick $7.5 of that coming in a signing bonus. The Nats played this whole situation pretty good I thought and they were stern in standing up to Boras. Granted they still offered up $5M more than anyone else had ever received so its not like they weren't shelling some money out. Boras and Strasburg would have looked like ungrateful jack's if they turned down a rookie deal of this magnitude. They absolutely could not risk not signing and re-entering next year. Too many strange things could happen. I wouldn't expect Strasburg to make much more in terms of noise until the start of next Spring. At least there is now some hope in D.C...something to come out to the ballpark for.

Paulus named Starter:

Greg Paulus opened up Syracuse Football training camp as the #3 QB on the depth chart. Several weeks into practice and he will be the face of the Syracuse Orange football team as the starting QB. The move was really a no-brainer in my opinion. Paulus could have been terrible and I still feel he is the man you have to start. Syracuse Football is the laughing stock of not only the Big East, but of the entire NCAA. They have fallen off the map and this one proud University is an afterthought in the football world. Greg Paulus will bring a hype to the Dome which once used to host sell-out crowds and be one of the loudest most intimidating places to play.

It will be interesting to see if Paulus can succeed and how much rust he will have to shake from taking 4-5 years off to be the hated PG of the Dookies. Not really sure my reaction's on the situation. The Orange are my favorite football squad and every year I sit down and watch the first game. They get crushed. Then I hardly follow them the rest of the year. I don't particularly like Paulus (but that is only because he was @ Duke). Once again, its the right move and it has a chance to put Syracuse Football back on the map from a media perspective at least. Pretty sad state of affairs in Upstate NY football where the Bills and Cuse are willing to sign anyone just to hopefully put some fans in the seats. Maybe Paulus will be lights out and show why he was such a hot recruit coming out of CBA high school. Any chance he parlays this into a NFL career?

Buffalo Bashing:

I was listening to the clown Junkies on the radio this morning and surprise surprise it was all Redskins talk. It is the same argument every day, does Jason Campbell stink? I will save you all the trouble...yes he does. Anyways, why I bring this up is because one guy was defending all the upgrades the Skins made and was saying that Derrick Dockery (former Bill) was a big upgrade. One guy fired back that the Bills straight up cut him and he was terrible. They proceeded to argue that the Bills were just cheap and terrible.

They then had their buddy call in who is apparently a Buffalo NY native. They asked him to name the top things about Buffalo where he could only respond...uhhh, we have good architecture, and Niagara Falls, and Lake Eerie, and wings. Terrible. They then spent the next five minutes saying how terrible Buffalo is and if you live there you are an idiot. Poor Buffalo just getting shredded all over the United States.

Ocho-Cinco Tweeting:

"Damn Breaking news: I have the swagg flu, doctors say there's no cure=many celebrations, sh%# talking, interviews in auto tune, pinata, etc."

"Anyone know Jay Z, tell him before the death of autotune let me get these interviews in first, but then we can have a proper burial in the nzone.

Tweet Tweet

I just picked up a new iphone the other day and it has suckered me into the Twitter world. I never thought I would cave, but oh well, here I am. Been following a couple athletes this past week...thought I would like to share some of the decent tweets of the past week.

Chad Ocho Cinco:

• " I am triping, shhh Coles, Hendry, Caldwell, Simpson, Ocho Cincio=DMNDS!!!!"
  
• "DMNDS= don't make no damn sense, when something is awesome you label it dmnds, Halle Berry=dmnds yall get it, now use it in a sentence"


• "Me fighting @shawnemerriman DMNDS because I'd run circles around his tow left feet having a$$!!!"


• "How can @shawnemerriman fight me if his lights are out? DMNDS"
  

Terrell Owens:

• "Welcome back 2 the NFL mike!! God Bless!!
  
• (Jesus said,) "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you the rest." MATTHEW 11:28
  
• "B back possibly on mon, i'll make sure things r back 2 normal@ I do apologize tht the fan enthusiasm has been down! LoL

T.O usually gives a inspirational tweet a day. He is so thoughtful.

Right now I am following Chad Ocho Cinco, Aaron Maybin, Lee Evans, Donte Whitner, Brian Moorman, Kawika Mitchell, T.O., and SHAQ. A weak cast of tweeters if you ask me. If any interest in someone particular to follow I am free to suggestions..

Quick Hits

* Denzel Washington is apparently Chad Ocho Cinco's new coach/psychologist. Ocho is apparently turning back to the fun loving player we have all grown to love over the past couple years instead of the whining complaining one we saw last year. “He got on me about the way I handled myself last off season,” Ochocinco recalled in a phone conversation last week. “He wasn’t being gentle. He said, ‘You know what? You need to straighten up and stop fussin’ about something you have no control over. Make it fun again because it sure looks better when you do it that way.’ That’s all I needed to hear, especially from somebody like him.” Is there a situation Denzel Washington can't handle? If he can turn around 85 from having another 53 reception season for 540 yards, then it may be his finest work yet.

*Sticking on the Bengal receiver (ex-Bengal anyhow) front, lets take a look at the latest from the pony-tailed T.J Houshmanzadeh (championship!). T.J is apparently boycotting Madden '10 because he is unhappy with his 91 player rating. He went on to say, "I'm going to miss not playing it, but until they do me right, I'm not playing it any more." Why are receivers the biggest divas in all pro sports? If you ask me a 91 is a fairly good ranking, not to mention I believe Madden was scaling back all of their rankings to make superstars more valuable...

*Former UFC fighter Kimo Leopoldo is not dead, I repeat, not dead. Rumors surfaced on the Internet about the death of Kimo, and was later "confirmed" by various sources. It turns out Kimo was not dead after he told Yahoo! Sports in a phone interview, “I knew I wasn’t dead,” No Kimo, you are indeed not dead, just incredibly stupid.

*NBA movement around the league.

Pudgy Sean May signed with the Kings.

Skeleton Matt Barnes signed with the Magic.

Jarret Jack signed with the Raptors.

Odom is still undecided.

Andre Miller may be on the move, likewise with Big Baby Davis.

Steve Nash will rot away his career in Phoenix. Given Nash's age, I can't imagine them making another huge run after totally breaking down the team.

*JP Losman has officially signed with the UFL and Las Vegas to team with Jim Fassel. What a marriage this should turn out to be. The funny thing is that Losman (unless Vick ends up here) is being called the poster boy for the UFL. I don't know if this is sadder for J.P or the UFL.